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The whole was worked and engraved in the manner of the time, when art made the basest metals precious.... There was no sense now in staying on Monte Cristo like a dragon guarding a useless treasure: he must return to life and take his place among men and in society, with the rank, influence and power that are bestowed in this world by wealth—that first and greatest of forces that a human being can control.

The Island of Monte Cristo

Here Edmond had to face a new trial: he had to find out if he would recognize himself, not having seen his own face for fourteen years....He had entered the Chateau d'If with the round, full face of a contented young man whose first steps in life have been easy and who looks to the future as a continuation of the past. All that had changed utterly.

Then, despite the wind, despite the storm, despite the rain that was starting to fall, exhausted as he was, he fell asleep with that delicious sleep of the man whose body is numbed but whose mind is awake to the knowledge of unhoped-for good fortune.

he had taught his young companion the patient and noble craft of the prisoner, which is to make something out of nothing.

The abbé did not know Monte Cristo, but Dantès knew it. He had often sailed past this island, which lies 25 miles from Pianosa, between Corsica and Elba; once he had even dropped anchor there. The island was, had always been and is still utterly deserted: it is a rock of almost conical shape, which appears to have been thrown up by some volcanic cataclysm from the depths to the surface of the sea.

The Treasure

The Abbé's Cell

The Italian Scholar